The 700w is a sister to the 700wx with a few differences. The 700w only has half of the available memory of the 700wx and a different casing color. Also, the phone can only be used with Verizon Wireless service. If you don't require the additional memory of the 700wx and use Verizon as your carrier, you can often find a better deal on a Palm Treo 700w than a Palm 700wx.
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Product Description
To keep your smartphone's applications up to date, and to optimize the performance of your device, you may need to perform firmware and/or software updates just as you would on your PC. To learn more about updates for your device, please visit Palm's support site. Note that by clicking this link you will be leaving Amazon.com.A lot of folks said it would never happen, but here it is: a Palm device running Windows Mobile software. This isn't just any device, either. It's the latest version of Palm's wildly popular Treo series of Smartphones. Everything that's great about the Treo hardware is here, plus all the power of Windows Mobile 5.0. And to top it off, the Treo 700w is fully compatible with Verizon wireless' EV-DO mobile broadband data service. Simply put, everything you need to do your work on the move, and at blazing speeds, has arrived. Design
Like the 650, the top of the 700w features an expansion card slot for SD, SDIO, and MMC memory and expansion cards, and get this: Unlike the 650, the 700w supports the Palm Wi-Fi card. Up top there's also an infrared port for line of sight data transfers, as well as a handy switch for turning off the phone's ringer. Below the screen, a five-way navigator controls most of the phone's menus and operating system functions. The left side of the unit features a volume up/down toggle plus a handy user-customizable button that can be assigned to any phone or PDA function. The rear of the unit houses a loudspeaker, as well as the 1.3 megapixel camera unit. A touchscreen stylus can be tucked away on the right side of the phone. Meanwhile, a combined charging, data, and accessory attachment port, called the Palm "multi-connector" is housed on the bottom of the unit, as is a standard 2.5 mm stereo headset jack. Calling and PDA Features Staying productive on the road is made possible by the Microsoft Office Mobile suite, which includes Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile. You also get Picsel PDF Viewer for viewing PDF document attachments, and the File Explorer application makes it easy to browse the files on your 700w. Messaging and Internet One of the most important tools bundled with the 700w is Microsoft ActiveSync, which allows you to quickly synchronize your device's tasks, calendars, email, and contacts with your desktop. You also get Exchange ActiveSync, an application that lets you synchronize data with an Exchange server. Syncing can be done via USB, or wirelessly via Bluetooth. Imaging and Entertainment The Treo 700w's built-in camera sees a bump in performance with the ability to take 1.3 megapixel (1280x1024) stills. The camera also features a 2x digital zoom, a self portrait mirror, and automatic light balancing. While the camera is great for taking stills, it can also function as a camcorder, allowing you to capture MPEG4 video to the unit's memory. An integrated media application organizes your captured photos and videos. And last, but certainly not least, the Treo 700w keeps the fun going when you've got some downtime with great games. Bubble Breaker and Solitaire ship with the handset, but more Windows Mobile games are available. Suggested Service Options EV-DO Wireless Broadband Coverage Vital Statistics |
Product Details
- Integrated thumbable QWERTY keyboard makes sending email3 and editing documents fast and familiar
- Send and receive email from multiple corporate and personal email accounts, with built-in support for Microsoft® Outlook®, Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and other POP3 and IMAP accounts
- Uses EvDO network with average download speeds of 400-600 kbps
- 1.3 megapixel camera to shoots crisp, clear digital images
- Play your favorite MP3 files and other PlaysForSure audio content using Windows Media Player Mobile
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Customer Reviews
 Not perfect but still fits my needs |
| Review Date: April 3, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Timothy J. Drozinski, Florida, USA |
| I've been hesitating getting the Treo 700w for several months now, for two reasons:
1) I was with Cingular and I was waiting to see if and when they would add this phone to list of PDA phone offerings. I was also a bit hesitant to switch to Verizon, as many reviews I've read of their service, especially signal coverage in some areas, was pretty poor. 2) The cost of the phone, compared to how new it was. I didn't want to leap at new and untested technology and be both disappointed and $500 poorer (plus stuck with a 2-year contract) if it turned out to be a dud. I had missed out on the PDA revolution a few years back and always thought it would be nice to have one, but couldn't justify the expense and the hassle of having to carry a cell phone, a work-issued pager AND a PDA all the time. So instead all my PDA "functions" over the past couple of years have been carried out by a 50-cent pocket-size spiral notebook. The last straw was when I was sitting in the car on a Friday afternoon right after work, trying to call my wife to let her know I was outside her building to pick her up. Cingular's network, as is typical on a Friday afternoon, was flooded, and I wasn't able to get a call through despite repeated attempts. At that point I figured that Verizon couldn't be any worse than Cingular, so we went out to the Verizon kiosk at Circuit City the next day and set up our account. This phone has literally changed my life. Not in any earth-shattering ways, but coupled with the unlimited EV-DO internet access (which I've speed-tested at up to 750 kbit/sec in a good signal area), I can take my web-browsing just about anywhere. The calendar and task list tools are indispensable to me. With the addition of Pocket Quicken from Landware.com, I can track all my expenditures on the go and sync up when I get home - no more tedious entry of a stack of receipts that I've been putting off for days or weeks, and then hoping I didn't forget any. I enter the transaction while I'm at the register and don't worry about it. With PDAnet from junefabrics.com I can use the phone as a modem for my laptop in a pinch, and speeds are quite impressive, all things considered. One thing I don't like about it is that when it's set to periodically connect to check e-mail, it closes the internet connection upon completion... even if you were busy using the internet at the time. It's also running a version of Internet Explorer that identifies as version 4.0, which many web sites detect and redirect you to a page that says you need to upgrade your browser. It would be nice if Microsoft brought the Windows Mobile browser into the 21st century with an upgrade sometime soon. I tried running Minimo (a mobile version of the Mozilla browser) but it has lots of problems. I added a 2GB SD card for additional storage and have a small collection of mp3s on it. They sound reasonably good, but a little tinny, over the phone speaker. I haven't tried using the earphone jack. A nice feature of this phone is that you can use your own mp3s as ringtones, AND you can use them from the SD card, they don't have to be resident in phone memory. The other main shortcoming of this phone is the small 240x240 screen. Compared to the larger screen of the Palm phones in the Treo line, this is a big negative. Let's face it - this is a cell phone. You weren't really expecting to do extensive high-end web-browsing anyway. It's good enough to get by on though for simple tasks on the go. I've used it to look up business phone numbers and addresses, look up product information and reviews while standing in the store looking at the item in question, bought movie tickets through Fandango, and even posted on some message boards. In conclusion, I'm glad I made the leap. The phone has enough compelling features for me to overlook its few (but not entirely insignificant) flaws, such as the small screen and some quirky behavior. I've been pretty happy with Verizon's service so far, especially the speed of the data connection which is quite snappy, and the coverage area seems pretty extensive... I haven't found many places where the signal is unusable (except when I'm inside the local supermarket... I have to say that it must be something to do with the construction of the building itself, because the signal is fine right outside the door). |
| Great phone- I tried both the Treo 650 and the Treo 700w |
| Review Date: February 6, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Be a Good Neighbor, Chelmsford, MA USA |
| I decided to drop Nextel because of the poor coverage; the Treo 700w was not yet released, so I thought I would try the 650 first, through earthlink wireless, as they had the best deal on a 650. Earthlink uses both the sprint wireless network and verizon depending on location. Coverage via Earthlink was excellent in the area I use it, northwest of Boston. If you're going with a Treo 650, I would recommend Earthlink.
The 650, as Walter Mossberg states in his Wall Street Journal columns, is an excellent phone. Mr. Mossberg, however, is a strong proponent of the Palm OS, and so I sensed bias in his review of the Windows 700 Treo. In spite of his review and that of others, I decided to give the Treo 700w a try. I am very pleased with the phone. I felt that it had the 650 and the Palm OS out-matched in every category. I do, however, think that the Palm OS has some great user-friendly features, and it's simple, and fast. However: if you want fast downloads and intend on using internet features, Windows Mobile 5 on the Treo can't be beat. I've used the internet features extensively for business and pleasure, and I'm very pleased with it. Mr. Mossberg derides Windows Mobile 5 for it's 'frankenstein-like' features. If you've used a windows PDA in the past, however, the quirks are at most a minor annoyance which quickly become irrelevant. I think that a new faster version of the Palm OS supporting EVDO will be a good competitor to the 700w, but as of now, the 650 is out-classed. If I didn't need the internet, and didn't need corporate email connections comparable to blackberry, I might re-consider, but for now, I'm keeping the Treo 700w, and I've returned the 650. I'm not a great fan of Microsoft having had to write programs with MFC and deal with all of the bloated and buggy products that Microsoft continues to release. This Windows mobile 5, however, is not one of those dreadful releases. The calendar program for WM 5 is not up to snuff and does not win when compared to Palm's OS calendar, but I solved that with an add-on from Agenda Fusion. There is also a nice add-on from Pocket Informant. The add-on calendars are slower, however, so Microsoft needs to do a better job of getting a great native calendar program similar to the Palm OS calendar. The Palm OS, for my purposes, still requires more add-on's than WM5, even with Palm's great calendar feature. It will be interesting to see what comes next for the Palm OS; I think they can still fight windows if the next hardware release is comparable to the 700w. |
| This is the device I've been wanting for 10 years... |
| Review Date: May 1, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Eric T. Soderstrom, Lake County, CA United States |
| Ever since I had my first Palm Pilot and cell phone, I've been wanting one device that could do it all. While I was waiting, MP3 players and iPods came out. So that made me want one device for all three things. It's finally here, and this is it.
The equipment arrived promptly and undamged, it worked right out of the box, the over the air activation went very smoothly, and I had no problems porting over my old phone number. One problem - there are bugs in the software that ships with the phone. Before you do anything, I recommend that you download the appropriate OS Updater from the Palm site. I takes about an hour to complete. My device would go to sleep and not wake up until I did a reset under the battery cover. I have not had this trouble since I installed the update. It was a bummer to have to go through this with a brand new phone, but it's not quite enough to take it down to 4 stars. I am still ahving a little trouble synching mail through my corporate server, but I think that has more to do with settings on our Exchange server. Pop mail and SMS messaging work fine consistently. I work out of a home office, and I can work anywhere two hours from an airport where there's broadband. This device takes me one step closer to my dream of having an Airstream Trailer and working by the beach or wherever I want. There is software available that allows this device to work as a broadband EVDO modem when connected to your laptop. Anyway - I'm still lugging around my iPod and, and my Palm Pilot, but I am using them less and less. Oh, and while you are shopping, get yourself a 1 Gig SD card. |
| True Zorch! Three steps forward if you need them. |
| Review Date: January 27, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Raul A. Zaritsky, Washington, DC |
| First, my install was simple, no sync problems. Activation was simple; and I was up and running in under an hour. What slowed me down was attempting to install Vindigo and Zagot for MS Mobile. They don't work yet, and I miss their utility. I had none of the problems as described in sync-ing and I am very impressed how easy the system downloaded the audible player and audible books to the SD card.
Second. This is not a Palm, in that the features are not as clear, but there are in the order of ten times more features programs and settings that can help you. In sum, it is to your advantage the way having a modern laptop of any OS is more helpful than a TRS 80. So having started with a Treo 180; a Treo 300; a 600 and a 650 now I have this 700w, there is no question in my mind that what you get is much more power: Zorch as Prof. Soloway likes to say. And it is a lot of Zorch. I walk around listening to an audio book -- not on Bluetooth due to some reason -- email comes in, I can respond. A phone call arrives, the audible player knows to stop; I take the call; finish; the audible player continues the book. The same works with music. Finally and most importantly there is a five to ten times increase in download speed. This means everything if you Google some information during a conversation or if you need to look something up while you read Ted Koppel's comments in the NYT Select section. Having page loads occur in a snap, email come in fast, having your search results returned in the middle of the conversation rather than after everyone has gone onto the next topic -- leaving you still attempting to find the historical or scientific fact -- is simply worth a whole lot. Speed kills, in the metaphorical sense. Can we complain about MS design, sure? Do we get to waste another half day to a day learning a new toy, sure. Is there some pain? Sure! But when we are working do we get this significantly increased Zorch for our personal use. Yes Sir! Praise goes to the techno Gods for this is a truly amazing personal computational device. |
| Amazed at how well this works!! |
| Review Date: April 17, 2006 |
| Reviewer: H.L., Dallas, Texas |
| I purchased a treo 700w after several weeks of research on the various "email" phones, such as the blackberry's and treo 650's, etc., etc. That is why most of you are probably reading this right now. This is a REALLY well designed device, for many different reasons.
The main reason most people are looking at a treo or blackberry is to sync it up with work. The treo syncs INSTANTLY with an exchange server running exchange 2003 as soon as you fill in about 5 blanks with information. Since it uses this new ActiveSync technology, if you delete off of the phone, it deletes off your work computer, and if you open an email at work, it shows opened on the treo. It FAR exceeds my expectations. Not only does it do email, but it will sync all of your contacts, task lists, and your calendar from Outlook! I had all of these sync'd and ready to go in about 30 minutes of set up time. If you are not running an exchange server for your email, there are several other services that allow you to get your email. Verizon has a "push" type program that will forward your email account to the device. You can also sync the phone up directly into the front of your computer using the usb cable. Now for the one question I could never seem to get answered in the forums or anywhere else: THE TREO 700W WILL WORK ON A 64 BIT COMPUTER (x64) RUNNING WINDOWS XP 64 BIT EDITION!!!!! There is not a blackberry on the market right now (as of 4/17/06) that can sync with a 64 bit computer! The drivers are not available. I learned that the hard way after picking up two of the newest blackberrys from cingular (8700c). Another great feature of the Treo 700w is it's suite of programs. You can open word documents, excel spreadsheets, and even .pdf files with a simple free viewer download. The speed of the Treo is amazing, and I found some cool programs that will "squeeze" a normal internet page onto the smaller treo screen. There is also a memory card slot, and after dropping a 1 gig card into the slot and filling it with about 50 mp3's (I think it can hold 200-300), i was listening to music out of the speakerphone (and it didn't sound half bad!). I could go on and on about how much I like this device and how it has really helped me in my daily activities, but I need to get back to work. The treo 700w was the answer to my blackberry 8700c's problems. I would put it on the same level as my tivo as far as the amount it has improved my life. Don't take my word on it though, check it out for yourself! |
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